Hello,
I am looking for some advice about buying a small plot of land from our neighbours. We have a 2 bed cottage in the south East, UK worth approx £180-200k. We currently have a small strange shaped garden, like a thin wedge shaped path.
Some new people have bought the house and garden next door to do up, their garden being large but also a strange shape where it flares out where ours wedges. Its currently overgrown. We indicated we were interested in buying some of their garden and we're in negotiations to straighten the boundary to make our garden a bit larger and a more regular shape which would make our garden better and help with resale. The land bought would also be a wedge making the new garden roughly rectangular and the land for us to buy would be 40 foot long and 10 foot wide (currently 3ft wide at this point) at the widest part (end) going to 0 at the narrowest point. I hope that makes sense! It also has a large tree stump in it we'll need to grind down.
They firstly indicated that they would want us to pay for new fencing (legally their responsibility) for the length and pay all legal fees (in total looking in the region of 1.5k) but have further indicated that they want to be paid for the land too.
We wanted to get some advice? Any thoughts? If appropriate, reasonable offers on this? We don't want to insult them or pay over the odds either though obviously.
Thanks!